Teacher appreciation week is coming soon – May 2nd-6th. Today I get to bring you a teacher appreciation ideas. Are you appreciative? As a former teacher, I know how challenging it can be to be in the teaching role. They are juggling so many kids with different needs and learning styles. The politics can be overwhelming. It is a hard job. To learn more about how to teach kids to be appreciative,… {Read More}

Are you familiar with the Bucket Filler books? I’m in love with them. I was first exposed to the Bucket Fillers when I heard one of them read while helping in my daughter’s classroom. When I was approached by Bucket Fillers to do a giveaway at Meaningful Mama, I just had to say yes. These books fit in great with my character development series (see my character development tab). I… {Read More}

It’s Mom’s Library time, and it’s almost Thanksgiving. Therefore, I decided to feature turkey crafts and activities for kids. There were some great ideas linked up, and I hope you are inspired to create some fun holiday projects with your kids this week leading up to the big turkey day. We also have a fabulous giveaway and another link party for you this week, so get comfortable and hang out a while!… {Read More}

It’s back! Mom’s Library is kicking off the holiday season with it’s 2nd annual Holiday Giveaway. I’m so excited because this year we’ve doubled the value in prizes! This is our Holiday Giveaway with $1300 in prizes. We really appreciate you stopping in each week to check out all the amazing resources from moms like you. 5 weeks of giveaways are coming at you worth over $1300, starting with our… {Read More}

It’s Mom’s Library again where I am featuring 6 fun science activities for kids. I am excited you are here for the party this week. As always, we have a lot of great resources to offer. This is my second collection of science activities for kids that I have done with mom’s library. Please check out my other science related post for even more activities. Meaningful Mama Features: 6 Fun… {Read More}

Welcome to a post I have been anticipating for quite some time. Today I bring you 50 Leaf Crafts and Activities and Mega Cash Giveaway. Let me tell you what I am talking about when I say MEGA Cash. I have paired up with other bloggers to give you a giveaway valued at $2000. You heard me right! We are giving away FOUR cash prizes of $500 each. Along with… {Read More}

Laminated Dry Erase Funny Faces & Fellowes Laminator Review and Giveaway These laminated dry erase funny faces were the first project I did with my kids after I received my Fellowes Laminator. I was so excited when this package arrived at the door. I have never owned a laminator before, and I have always wanted one. This would have been a great machine for me to own to make my personalized game… {Read More}

Back to School Giveaway from Boogie Wipes It’s time to head back to school, and I’m teaming up with Boogie Wipes to offer an awesome Back-to-School Giveaway for kids and moms! Will you be our lucky winner? Three lucky winners will receive a backpack stocked with school supplies (and Boogie Wipes) and a Mommy Clutch – full of everything moms needs (including gift cards!) How to Enter From following Boogie… {Read More}

I was sponsored by Lessontrek to review their homeschool lesson planning tool and am excited to share an experience as well as an awesome giveaway! All opinions are an honest review of the writer. For more information please read my full disclosure. Lessontrek Homeschool Planner Today I get to bring my homeschool friends (which I think I have a lot of them in my audience) a great resource with Lessontrek… {Read More}

Crafts and Activities Made from Nature at Mom’s Library Welcome to this week’s edition of Mom’s Library where I am featuring crafts and activities made from nature as well as a giveaway for a 3 month subscription for 2 children to K5 Learning ($120 value). I’m glad you are here this week. What is Mom’s Library? Every Tuesday starting at 7:00 PM, Mom’s Library begins on these great sites: True Aim Education, Crystal’s… {Read More}

Welcome back to our weekly Mom’s Library. We took a month off of the weekly round-ups and giveaways to bring your our Ultimate Guide to Summer Fun Giveaway, which was huge. We are falling back into the rhythm of our weekly Mom’s Library. This week my features bring you Five Fabulous Felt Crafts and Activities. I want to first give you a review of what we do here. What is… {Read More}

But it sure is rewarding! We know being a mom is hard work and things don’t always go as planned. So for Mother’s Day, we’re teaming up with Boogie Wipes to offer you a chance to win an iPad Mini and a Boogie Wipes prize pack! Enter Now! Complete the form below to enter to win an iPad Mini and Boogie Wipes prize pack. Contest is open to US and… {Read More}

Welcome to Mom’s Library I am so glad you joined us this week for my “Fun Kid’s Activities at Mom’s Library” link party and giveaway. I had a hard time picking a theme for this week. I generally like to do a round-up of sorts, but today I chose chose posts that seemed like a lot of fun for kids of varying ages. We are happy to have you here at… {Read More}

Flower Crafts at Mom’s Library Welcome to this week’s version of Mom’s Library at Meaningful Mama. I am excited you have joined us today. This is a link party, giveaway and should be a great resource for anyone cares for kids – whether a mom, grandparent, teacher, dad or mentor. This week I decided to feature flower crafts because I see spring is in the air, and I’m getting excited… {Read More}

I have teamed up with some great bloggers to bring you this special baby shower $50 giveaway. My friend at True Aim Education, Janine, just recently gave birth to a new baby boy. Her experience was the catalyst for this giveaway, and I’d love for you to here more about her journey here: The miracle of life; it’s easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of our daily tasks.… {Read More}

Welcome to this Week’s Edition of Mom’s Library My features for this week involve early learning counting and number practice. Mom’s Library is a weekly link party that brings you a fabulous place to find resources for being a meaningful mom, a place to link up and a giveaway. The giveaway this week is valued at $100. This giveaway includes Preschool Curriculum eBook Set, M is for Mouse Reading Game, and a $50… {Read More}

Links to Photos Above: Monsters Inc. Snacks, Heart Art, P is for Princess, Football Art, Lego Learning, Cotton Ball Wigs, I is for Ice Cream, Mardi Gras Masks Welcome to Mom’s Library This is the place for you to come to link up your own ideas, explore the ideas of other fabulous bloggers, enter a giveaway and potentially become featured on one or more of 8 blogs. This week our… {Read More}

Welcome to Mom’s Library Giveaway, Link Party and Feature Round-up Our features this week focus on creative art techniques for kids, but let me first introduce you to the giveaway for this week. Today I get to bring you a giveaway for See the Light art lessons for kids. I know my kids would be drawn to this because of their interest in arts and crafts. However, I think art… {Read More}

Welcome to Mom’s Library – a weekly giveaway and link party. This week my features focus on Valentine Learning Activities with Mom’s Library. This weekly event is the place to come to find great resources for raising children – whether you are a mom, dad, big sister, grandparent, babysitter, childcare worker or teacher. We hope you are inspired by all the great ideas linked up here. We also hope that… {Read More}

Mom’s Library and Splash Math Giveaway I have teamed up with some other wonderful blogging ladies to bring something new to Meaningful Mama. This is my second week of being a librarian at Mom’s Library. Mom’s Library is a weekly giveaway and link party. It is meant to be a great resource for moms, and it is chalked full of ideas to bring inspiration into your parenting. I’m hoping you… {Read More}

Welcome to Mom’s Library! I joined up with a few great mom blogs to bring something new to Meaningful Mama – Mom’s Library Link Party & Giveaway. Each week there will be a link party and a giveaway you can join. Let me first introduce you to the Giveaway this week. Today’s giveaway at Mom’s Library is for ABC’s of Australian Yoga. Here is a review of this book you can find at… {Read More}

I am excited for the giveaway I get to bring to you today. There is a newer company on the market called Colourful Letters. The owner and creator of this company reached out to me with a desire for me to get her product in my hands.

I have great news for you today…chocolate. This is my Sucre’ Chocolate Giveaway. Aren’t these chocolates beautiful? After Sucre’ – a sweet boutique out of New Orleans – reached out to me with interest in doing a giveaway at Meaningful Mama, I was able to peruse their site found at Shop Sucre. You will find everything from gourmet chocolates, beautiful macarons, drinking chocolates, cookies, bark, holiday gift collections and their… {Read More}

I received a copy of the movie in exchange for this post. All opinions are my own. Good new for you today. I have a Little Mermaid Giveaway. I get to giveaway THE LITTLE MERMAID Diamond Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack with Digital Copy. Who is excited about that? The Little Mermaid is probably my absolute favorite Disney movie from my childhood. There was something about Ariel’s spirit that I could… {Read More}

Today I am excited to bring you my Lakeshore “Learning at Home” review. Are you familiar with Lakeshore Learning stores? I have always loved their products. I have talked about Lakeshore before because I picked out some of my Christmas presents for the kids last December. As a former teacher, I used to buy a lot of products for teaching and my tutoring business at Lakeshore. Now that I’m a mom, I find things… {Read More}

Let’s end this summer with a bang! For those of you who missed our Virtual Summer Camp you can still get in the last couple of weeks. You can join our Facebook Virtual Summer Camp online community here for daily inspiration on all things kids activities, family fun, recipes and crafts… Just click Join Group at the upper right hand corner, it’s FREE. For this weeks Camp Craft go here on Babble/Disney, 6 Obstacle… {Read More}

Kahlua Pie with Coffee Whipped Cream is the perfect desert for the coffee lover in your life. You not only get a recipe today but a giveaway for a Seattle’s Best Coffee pack, loaded with surprises. I hope I have you excited to read more about and enter the giveaway, and I hope you love the recipe. First I want to introduce the giveaway from Seattle’s Best Coffee. The Hot… {Read More}

Beginning reading can be challenging to teach if you don’t have the right resources. I wanted to provide you with fun reading games and activities for you to do with your kids. This is also a giveaway, and I am able to provide you with the opportunity to win books for your family. I did a similar post for teaching kids their letters. Once your children have their letters down,… {Read More}

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Comfort and Harmony for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I am so excited to bring you another great giveaway today. I have recently been introduced to the Comfort & Harmony mombo nursing pillow. Oh, I wish I had this nursing pillow when I was in the breastfeeding stage. I literally had two different types of pillows. For younger babies… {Read More}

I am so thrilled to bring you a great giveaway from Lisa Leonard . She is offering $50 to be spent in her shops. If you are not familiar with Lisa Leonard , I am excited for you to have the opportunity to browse around her site. I found more and more to fall in love with as I explored. I know I have my answers for Mother’s Day now.… {Read More}

I am excited to be pairing up with my friend Mackenzie, from Cheerios and Lattes, to bring you a great Easter giveaway. What’s better than a bunch of resources to teach the REAL meaning of Easter. As you begin deciding what to fill your child’s Easter basket with this year, we are sharing some fantastic resources to help bring home the HOPE the real meaning of Easter brings! This Easter… {Read More}

I am excited to announce another giveaway here at Meaningful Mama. I have not yet seen this movie, but I will be watching it and doing a review soon. In the mean time, I get to offer up to one lucky winner a Blu-Ray and DVD combo pack. I’ve read a few reviews, and I look forward to seeing all this movie has to offer. Good luck. I’ve added… {Read More}